public relations

The Gale Public Relations Thesaurus is a subset of the master Gale Business Thesaurus in the narrower domain of public relations agencies. It includes terms in marketing communications, press relations, customer relations, investor relations, consumer education advertising, public service advertising, advocacy advertising, social cause advertising, corporate image, publicity, propaganda, and corporate social responsibility. All thesaural relationships (BT/NT, RT, USE/UF) are included, and some terms have scope notes.

"A wide range of models of PR and communication evaluation exist using a wide range of terms including inputs, outputs, outtakes, outflows, outgrowths, effects, results, and impact. An even wider range of metrics and methods for evaluation are proposed for each stage. The field is confusing for many practitioners. This page presents a taxonomy of evaluation tailored to strategic public communication – a taxonomy being a mapping of a field to produce a categorisation of concepts and terms – in short, to show where things go and where they fit in relation to each other.